I can’t yet say that music has carried me through the corona crisis but I know that it will. For one thing, it hasn’t really been all that long since…
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Bombast, drama, fantastical lyrical imagery, banshee vocals, killer riffs and pinball arcade synthesizers. What more could a thirteen-year old boy in the year 1978 ask for? “Okay Boomer, so some…
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My 4:00 a.m. brain took a break this morning and reverted from Stanley Cup hysteria, back to the less pressing but equally exuberant subjects of death and music. I’ve always…
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Fourteen year olds as a general rule have an innate ability to say some remarkably stupid things. In December of 1979 eleven people were killed by asphyxiation when they were…
“In plain terms, Johnny was and is the North Star; you could guide your ship by him — the greatest of the greats then and now. Truly he is what…
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Purists would say that it’s Johnny B. Goode, or Maybelline, or Rock And Roll Music, or Sweet Little Sixteen, or Roll Over Beethoven, or Brown Eyed Handsome Man and they…
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Word. Check it out while I break this down, Ba-ba-ba-bargains! Buh- -buh- -buh- -bargains Ba-ba-ba-bargains! Buh- -buh- -buh- -bargains You see I got a little problem with the Salvation Army…
They came in old cardboard boxes with white water lines and black mold. They came in plastic totes, softened and misshapen from the strain of the collective weight within. They…
I was driving home just now, mindless highway driving after a day of errands and tasks. Another bitter January day of the type that come in bunches when you couldn’t…
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I was taking a walk the other night when a song came through my earbuds and though I’d heard the song a thousand times prior, it struck me like never…
It begins with a syrupy carnival organ and a left hand absent-mindedly dropping a note on the piano keys, from there unearthing a familiar earworm that makes you think you…